echniques and Procedures FOCUSED REVIEW CRITERIA FOR CENTRAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION

McCarthy, R.N., in the development ofthese nutritional indicators is acknowledged. The implementation of the Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) in 1983 shifted the financial incen-tive for Nutritional Support Teams (NSTs) from rev-enue generation to cost containment. This new health care austerity has forced some NSTs to aban-don their services and has led to more complicated procedures for establishing new NSTs.1 While it is inherently apparent that nutrition is a vital compo-nent of health, irrefutable evidence that NSTs are cost effective and cost beneficial has not been dem-onstrated on a significantly large scale to present to administrators responsible for funding NSTs